Introduction

If you are interested in computer text to speech (TTS) and speech recognition (SR), this little article is for you. In order to make the PC capable of speech and speech recognition, we need to install the Microsoft Server Speech Platform 10.2, its SDK and the Runtime Languages for TTS and SR you wish. Here are the links:

NOTE: The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is required to run the Microsoft Speech Platform. Starting from version 10.2 of the latter, the minimum OS required is Windows Vista. If you still have Windows XP, you can try to download an older version, may be 10.1.

After that, we need to create a Windows Form application and add the following reference to the project:

Conclusion

Computer speech and speech recognition are interesting subjects. Nowadays, we can start interacting with the PC using voice. I remember the telefilms Start Trek and Knight Rider. There they could talk with the computer using the voice. These days, they are getting closer, but they are still far away. By the way, if the computer voice doesn't work well, ask Mr. Spock to fix it :-)

I agree with you.
Sorry, but I don't have spare time and in very little time I did this little program that works fine, so everybody can easly test the TTS and SR directly and have their own opinion. Mine is that it is not bad at all. I also included in the .zip file the MicrosoftSpeechSDK.chm help file, so you can look into the subject deeply.